This page is a supplemental mapping resource page for editors of Utah. All guidance specific to Utah can be found in the Southwest region wiki. Other states in the Southwest region include Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, and New Mexico.
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Mapping resources
Statewide
- Interactive State Address Map (useful house number overlays)
- Interactive State Parcel Map (verifying owner information for Place work)
- To properly type a Freeway, Major Highway, Minor Highway, or Primary Street, refer to the Utah Arcgis site and cross reference that against the Waze Functional Classification table. Enabling the “Topographic” layer under the “Basemap” heading is helpful.
- Rural Functional Class Maps by County - PDF (Out of date)
- Interactive Highway Mile Marker Map or a PDF with county by county breakdown.
- UDOT Region Map
- Address Grids: Origin points for the numerical grids, and links to a shapefile.
County GIS Data
This is a collection of County maps, along with state maps focused on counties that do not maintain separate mapsets.
- Beaver County
- Box Elder County
- Cache County
- Carbon County
- Daggett County
- Davis County
- Duchesne County
- Emery County
- Garfield County
- Grand County
- Iron County
- Juab County
- Kane County
- Millard County
- Morgan County
- Piute County
- Rich County
- Salt Lake County
- San Juan County
- Sanpete County
- Sevier County
- Summit County
- Tooele County
- Uintah County
- Utah County
- Wasatch County
- Washington County
- Wayne County
- Weber County
Alternate Source for GIS information: Check the State Parcel map and zoom into the county/town in question.
City GIS resources
Miscellaneous mapping resources
Functional Classification
Utah is following the Functional Classification (FC) system for the USA.
UT to Waze FC conversion
Utah’s Dept of Transportation has made Functional Classification maps available online, in PDF format, for each county. They also provide an interactive statewide map.
Resource Links
- UDOT Interactive Functional Classification Map - ArcGIS
- UDOT Functional Classification Maps by County (PDF Format) (May be out of Date)
UDOT GIS class and color description
The Utah Classification and Color scheme come from the official Utah D.O.T (UDOT) Functional Classification (FC) map that is published by UDOT. The legend shows what classifications UDOT uses and what color is assigned to each class.
UDOT to Waze conversion table
References:
- ↑ When a state highway “SPUR” route is used to connect a state highway with another state highway, a US highway, or an Interstate (i.e., when it is used as a connector/CONN route), use the first state highway column.
- ↑ All FC “Local” roads with a State Route designation (SR-XXX) discovered so far have been local roads serving a state facility campus, and are more appropriately typed as Primary Street, Street, or even Parking Lot Road. Check with a state manager for any of these.
If you encounter a specific type of road (Interstate/US Hwy Business route, etc) that is not shown, reference the main FC Quick Reference chart
Functional Classification Exceptions
These roads have changed from the recommended Functional Classification for the reason noted.
| Road Name | New Type | Area | Link | Reason | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SR-59 | Major Highway | Washington | Link | Corrects routing from US-89 to I-15 | RC |
| SR-291 | Parking Lot Road | Ogden | Link | State facility parking lot roads | SM |
| SR-296 | Street | American Fork | Link | State facility campus roads | SM |
| SR-298 | Parking Lot Road | South Ogden | Link | State facility parking lot roads | SM |
Closures
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You can follow UDOT Traffic on Twitter to stay up to date on the latest traffic conditions and road closures. |
This section contains details about road closures, mainly state highways, but can contain City, Urban and Rural streets in the state of Utah. If you perform a road closure at any time please use the Waze Closures form and report all closures here.
UDOT maintains a Traffic Information center with all known closure/incident information included.
Roads
U-turns
U-turns are permitted in Utah where they are safe [1], except where prohibited by signage or restricted by local municipal law. Legal U-turns includes those made from a two-way (i.e. shared) turn lane. [2]
^1 | Utah Code 41-6a-802 (2)
^2 | Utah Code 41-6a-801 (3)(b)
Speed Limits
Utah does not alter speed limits for temporary reductions such as school zones or work zones, unless the work zone duration will exceed 3 months and the signs present are fixed-speed and on permanent style mountings (no digital variable speed limit signs, no portable signs).
Speed Limit standards
The following are the speed limits laws of Utah, except where posted signs indicate differently (higher or lower speed limits).
- Urban district: 25 mph.
- All other locations: 55 mph.
Speed Limit Resources
Cameras
Speed Cameras and Red light Cameras are NOT CURRENTLY USED in the State of Utah. Or more specifically the restrictions on use are strict enough that no entity is using Speed Cameras. The reason is that unlike most states that allow such devices, Utah’s law requires that a certified Law Enforcement Officer must personally approve each ticket at the time of the infraction.